Strangers on a Train

Craig Warner's adaptation of the novel 

 by Patricia Highsmith

When two young men meet on a train, there's nothing they fear to say. They'll never see each other again.

Charles Bruno: Anton Lesser

Guy Haines: Michael Sheen

Anne Haines: Saskia Reeves

Gerard: Bill Nighy

Elsie Bruno: Jane Whittenshaw

Alex: Denys Hawthorne

With: Roger May; Stephen Critchlow;

John Hartley;  Andrew Branch

Music: Craig Warner

Director: Andy Jordan

Thu 25th Jan 1996

14:00 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Guy Haines and Charles Anthony Bruno are passengers on the same train. Haines is a successful architect in the midst of a divorce, Bruno a mysterious smooth-talker with a sadistic proposal: he’ll murder Haines’s wife if Haines will murder Bruno’s father. 

As Bruno carries out his twisted plan, Guy finds himself trapped in Highsmith’s perilous world, where, under the right circumstances, ordinary people are capable of extraordinary crimes. 

The inspiration for Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1951 film, Strangers on a Train launched Highsmith’s prolific career, proving her a master at depicting the unsettling forces that tremble beneath the surface of everyday life. 

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